If you are interested or think you might like to attend such a workshop in the next 18 months, please apply below so we can chat with you about your specific interests and your availability. We use this information to plan our workshops, rather than scheduling our workshops and then inviting people, so please apply even if there isn’t an already-scheduled workshop you know you’d like to attend!

Key Information

Most workshops are a week long, and take place at our office in Berkeley, California.

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MIRIx Workshops

MIRI wants to support Friendly AI research around the world.

Our MIRIx program encourages mathematicians, computer scientists, and formal philosophers to organize their own Friendly AI workshops, and offers to reimburse the organizers for expenses.

A MIRIx workshop can be as simple as gathering some of your friends to read MIRI papers together, talk about them, eat some snacks, scribble some ideas on whiteboards, and go out to dinner together. Or it can be a multi-day research workshop pursuing a specific line of attack on a particular problem. It’s up to you.

In some cases we’ll be able to send a MIRI research fellow to your first meeting to give tutorials and answer questions, or perhaps they’ll Skype in to your workshop to do the same. We’ll work out the details, and send you some tips on how to organize the workshop, after you fill out the short form here.

Volunteer

We are always in need of volunteers for a wide range of tasks.

MIRI’s team does a great deal, but we’re always short on time and people to get work done. This is where our volunteers come in. Every month there are hundreds of hours of work that we simply can’t get to without your help.

If you are passionate about MIRI’s work and want to help us out remotely, head over to mirivolunteers.org to see what volunteers are currently working on, and register as a volunteer to get started.

Give for Free

Join those who are raising money for MIRI simply by going about their everyday lives.

$18,000+

Amount raised to date through our “give for free” initiatives.

With your daily web searches, purchases at your favorite online retailers, and more, you can raise money for MIRI, all with no effort and at no cost to you!

AmazonSmile $1,500+ raised to date

If you shop at the new AmazonSmile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to a charitable organization of your choosing.
MIRI is an eligible charitable organization, so the next time you consider purchasing something through Amazon, support MIRI by shopping at AmazonSmile!

If you get to Amazon.com via an affiliate link, remember to change “amazon.com” to “smile.amazon.com” in the address bar before making your purchase. Or, even easier, use the SmileAlways Chrome extension.

VigLink $4,300+ raised to date

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